Hidden Structures I-III

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Artist Dóra Maurer(Hungarian, 1937–2026)Hungarian, 1937–2026

CultureHungarian

Titles

Hidden Structures I-III

Date1979

MediumGelatin silver prints

DimensionsImage (.A): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.A): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Image (.B): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.B): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Image (.C): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.C): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clare Glassell, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan, and F. Richard Pappas in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker with additional funds from the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment

Object number2014.680.A-.C

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionLike pre-World War II Modernists, particularly fellow Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy, Dóra Maurer works in multiple media—photography, film, graphic design, performance, and installations. Her works are both playful and informed by scientific observations, including mathematical and conceptual processes as well as theories about color and perception. For each of the images in her triptych Hidden Structures I–III, Maurer folded a piece of photographic paper in multiple ways, with each crease creating the range of geometric shapes that animate the paper. She also drew on various sections with graphite and then exposed the paper to light. In development, the graphite washed away. The resulting images become one document of various states of each sheet of paper.
Provenanceartist through Vintage Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, 1979; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2014
Exhibition HistoryParis Photo, Grand Palais, 2013

“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.
Published References Modern Hungarian Photography 2013, Vintage Galeria, Budapest " Maurer Dóra: Fotómunkák 1971-1993." Budapest: Vintage Galéria, 2007 Maurer, Dóra. " Fényelvtan a fotogramról." Budapest: Balassi, 2001 Maurer, Dóra. "Maurer Dóra." Budapest: Ludwig Museum, 2008 Ronte, Dieter and Beke Laszlo. " Dóra Maurer: Arbeiten, 1970-1993." Budapest: Present Time Foundation, 1994 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

.B) Inscribed in foreign language, a title, number(3), date and signature
A-C) inscriptions on verso upper left are upside down

A-C) Signed in graphite on verso upside down: 1979 Maurer

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